It's pretty crazy that in the 30s and 40s there were authors like Dorothy Parker, William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene just puttering around Hollywood writing screenplays. Some fantastic writing went down there.

Davis is electrifying and Bogart is of course excellent…but man oh man I do not get Leslie Howard's appeal. At all.

Yeah that didn't sit well with me. There's this smug attitude that success can only be measured in US album sales.

Really similar (though superior) to the pretty good The Petrified Forest, which has Bogart in his pre-hero days as a decently scary villain.

A good takeaway from all of this is to never listen to anything Reddit says. 

It's tempting to describe almost anything that you don't like as a false flag.

#deweywasrobbed #countthevotes

Point taken! Though some of those are either decent filler (Ted is particularly strong) or solid plot episodes (School Hard, Lie to Me and the decent What's My Line two-parter). Nothing as cringe worthy as some of the Season 1 stuff (well, Bad Eggs and maybe When She Was Bad).

I'd also say Buffy hit the ground running at the start of its second season, not halfway through.

A nice meal from Pizza Haus heals all wounds.

Time for my bi-monthly posting about my all-time favorite Mamet line, from Heist:

But it was a parody of the "Don't insult the sponsor" hook - when he looked around and noticed that every single thing in the office was from this company, which he'd apparently never noticed.

I really liked House of Cards, and I think the first series of the British original is genius. The American HoC is weaker (aside from three excellent performances from Spacey, Penn and especially Stoll), but there's still a lot of good there. We'll see how it holds up in its second season though (I was not a huge fan…

Great voice acting from Linda Cardinelli in this episode. I also love the implication that the boy band will die horribly in nature. 

We are criminals now!

I describe this show as a kid-friendly Clone High, The sense of humor is similar.

Ooooh Police Squad is a great comparison. I was thinking Childrens Hospital but this has the more straight-faced/detached sense of humour.

"Can you walk and talk at the same time?"
"Yes, I took a class."

Yeah I noticed that about ONE: The female characters are actually really interesting! It's also nice to see Cheyenne Jackson getting to be funny, after his misuse on 30 Rock.

There's probably gonna be a lot of snark over the AV Club promoting this, but I thought the pilot was really hilarious and well-done: the visual look is a pretty spot-on parody of high-powered workplace dramas.